The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 8

He thought on the whole that it would be wiser not to wait longer, but to depart at once, and he started on horseback at the very moment when the princess had been found by her followers, wet to the skin, and blown against a rick.

Who acts: king, wind, followers · What happens: think, be, not wait, depart, start, find · To what, where: horseback, princess

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, wind, followers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 whole	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 whole	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	xcomp
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 wiser	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wiser	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 wiser	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 wiser	cop
10	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 whole	conj
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 wait	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 wait	mark
13	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 wiser	parataxis
14	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 wait	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 depart	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 depart	cc
17	to	to	PART	_	18 depart	mark
18	depart	depart	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 wait	conj
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 once	case
20	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	18 depart	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 started	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 started	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 started	nsubj
24	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	parataxis
25	on	on	ADP	_	26 horseback	case
26	horseback	horseback	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 started	obl
27	at	at	ADP	_	30 moment	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 moment	det
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 moment	advmod
30	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 started	obl
31	when	when	SCONJ	_	36 found	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 princess	det
33	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 found	nsubj:pass
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 found	aux
35	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 found	aux:pass
36	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 started	advcl
37	by	by	ADP	_	39 followers	case
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 followers	nmod:poss
39	followers	follower	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 found	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 wet	punct
41	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 followers	amod
42	to	to	ADP	_	44 skin	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 skin	det
44	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 wet	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 blown	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 blown	cc
47	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 thought	conj
48	against	against	ADP	_	50 rick	case
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 rick	det
50	rick	rick	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 blown	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	king				whole property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	would	wind				wise property	tree rules
3	not wait	to-infinitive					long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	depart	to-infinitive						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	start	past	king		horseback	moment		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	find	past · perfect · passive	princess's followers	the princess				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic
7	blow	participle	king not said here				against a rick	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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